Visualization, Curation, Social Mining

Here is my visualization of India’s expenditure budget for Electronics and Information Technology (click on the image for an interactive chart). Here is the original PDF. Here is the data file I created.

This is my visualization of India’s 2014 Budget Expenditures by ministry. If you dare, here is the original. You can also compare with Singapore’s budget or India’s 2013 budget. If you compare with Singapore, you can see that the number…

This is my next attempt at making sense of Singapore’s 2014 budget. The graphic shows the top 500 development expenditures. You can use the listbox to select a particular ministry. On non-touch devices (laptop, desktop) you can see tooltips. In…

Open Data Index There is an interesting organization which assesses the state of open data around the world’ – the Open Data Index. The need for open data is to make governments transparent and accountable. An important goal of open…

Here is my visualization of Singapore’s 2014 budget expenditure. Click on the image to view the interactive visualization. This is better experienced in a laptop/desktop. I’ll be writing more about this later.

I think I got the initial idea for this visualization from Brian Marick’s ‘affinity trip’ example (from his book Everyday scripting with Ruby). In that example he scrapes a page from Amazon to find related books. I like to see…

This is a list of books on agile, scrum or lean published on Amazon in 2013. I have tried to remove books which are not related to software development. Let me know if there are any mistakes in the list. …